Practice: Journalism, essays and criticism

Guy Rundle is the award-winning author of numerous books, including Inland Empire- America at the End of the Obama Era, A Revolution in the Making- Robots, 3D Printing, Robots and the Future, 50 People Who Stuffed Up Australia (with Dexter Rightwad), Down to the Crossroads- On the Trail of the 2008 Election and two Quarterly Essays, The Opportunist- John Howard and the Triumph of Reaction and Clivosaurus- The Politics of Clive Palmer. He has written four hit stage shows for the satirist Max Gillies; has co-written two musicals, All Het Up and Silly Season, the revue Absent Presences and the album Paradoxical Sleep; and was a writer, producer and deviser of numerous TV shows, including Full Frontal, Get A Life, Shark Bay, Comedy Inc. and Vulture. Rundle's writing has appeared in most major Australian publications, as well as The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Private Eye, Spiked, Jacobin and Penthouse. He served as co-editor of radical bimonthly Arena Magazine for fifteen years and has been a long-time correspondent-at-large for Crikey. His awards include an AWGIE for outstanding contribution to Australian comedy and The Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award in 2008.